US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on July 28 for "Blanking-time-less desaturation protection method for power devices" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,446, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Blanking-time-less desaturation protection method for power devices" was invented by Zhehui Guo (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Hui Li (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a devices, systems and methods implementing desaturation protection during faults (over-current or short-circuit faults) for a power device by monitoring drain source voltage and rate of change of the drain source voltage which provides a fault response time (t0 to t2) that is shorter than the blanking time (t0 to t5) re...